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Spotify Illustrates the Difference Between Flat Engagement and Real Sentiment

Hanna Kahlert

14 Jan 2020

consumer engagement

engagement metrics

Fandom

Q3 2019 was a quarter of mixed fortunes for Spotify, with its subscriber base displaying consistent growth, podcasts making a solid early showing, emerging markets demonstrating promise but ad revenue falling short.

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Quick Take: If We Are Moving from an Attention Economy to a Sentiment Economy, Is Music Still Undervalued?

Zach Fuller

19 Dec 2019

music industry

Music streaming

post-peak attention

Applying economics to music often invites groans from music fans, but here goes…. The recorded music market is currently worth $18.8 billion dollars a year, and thanks to streaming that number is growing.

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Post-Peak Attention and the Case for Micropayments

Zach Fuller

9 Dec 2019

Blockchain

Innovation

Media

Success in new business paradigms involves wasting what is abundant to capture what is scarce. The Industrial Revolution did this by taking advantage of technologies that used the finite resource of human physical labour (steam, electricity) and made it considerably more efficient, allowing for bigger factories and the advent of mass production.

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How the D2C Revolution Might Accelerate an Impending Recession

Tim Mulligan

30 Oct 2019

d2c

Peak Attention

peak attention economy

Recessions are notoriously difficult to accurately predict, and the next global recession is still hovering on the edge of reality. The macro-economic view is increasingly gloomy, with the ongoing Brexit process in Europe being exacerbated by increasingly fraught trade disputes between the US and China – the world’s largest and second-largest consumer economies.

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